Chapter 30 (1/2)

Xia Ying gives Gu Tuo the painting she promised yesterday. She goes out with a basket and a basket on her back.

When she came back, her basket was full of bamboo shoots, radishes and beans.

Although I have cleaned up the house a few days ago, there are still too many things missing in the house, especially in the kitchen!

So yesterday, Xia Ying bought a lot of seasonings in the town and went to the market to buy seven or eight jars of all sizes. When she came back from solving the problem that the villagers bullied Gu Yuanlong's brother yesterday, she washed and hung the jars. Now the jars are dry.

Now she brings back so many dishes. She washes and rinses all the bamboo shoots, radishes and beans with coarse salt and vinegar. All kinds of dishes are put in a big jar, and then the mouth of the jar is sealed.

As early as she began to be busy, Gu Yuanhao had already come to see the excitement.

”What are you doing?”

”Make pickles.” Xia Ying said, ”it's hot right now. When you eat pickles in bitter summer, it's refreshing and appetizing. It's more popular than hot fried dishes. By the way, pickle is also an excellent seasoning. When it is pickled, we can take it out to stew fish and meat in autumn and winter, and the taste is unique! ”

Gu Yuanhao's saliva was flowing.

At once his eyes turned to a pile of wild vegetables on the edge. ”What is this? Why didn't you marinate it together

”It's called gray cabbage. It can be used as a cold dish. But now, my real purpose of collecting them is to dye cloth! ” Xia Ying announced in a loud voice.

”Dyed cloth? This one? ”

Gu Yuanlong grabs a gray cabbage and looks at it again and again. ”How to dye it?”

”Want to know?” Xia Ying squeezed her eyes at the little guy, ”can you help me? I'll tell you how to do it as I work. ”

”I'd like to have some tofu in the evening.” Gu Yuanhao proposed the conditions.

”There is no tofu at home today, but there are tender eggplant in the garden. I'll make you minced meat eggplant. That taste is stronger than the meat foam tofu! ” Xia Ying Dao.

”By the way, I can make you an eggplant with mashed garlic. You must like it too!”

Gu Yuanhao was satisfied. ”Good, deal!”

So, this one big and one small together, clean up a basket of gray vegetables, and then into the kitchen. Xia Ying instructs Gu Yuanhao to show her the fire. She uses the fire to boil the gray cabbage for a long time, then filters the juice, leaving only the greyish green soup. Spoon the soup into a wooden basin and put a small alum in it. Xia Ying cuts a large piece of white cloth bought today and dyes it.

I dyed it three times over and over. When the cloth is taken out, the white cotton cloth has become a light green.

”Wow, it's really dyed!”

Gu Yuanhao put all this process into his eyes, and he could not help clapping with joy.

Xia Ying is also smiling. ”Now that the cloth is dyed, you also have a share of the credit. I'll leave you two feet for your hair band. What do you think? ”

”Good!” Gu Yuanhao immediately points his head like a chicken pecking rice.

Although he didn't like the vivid color, he could only think that the cloth was dyed by him and Xia Ying together! It's his credit here! He immediately felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart, so he looked at the color as if it was pleasing to the eye.

He can't wait to tie this new hair band on his head!